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" His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. "
Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations - Page 146
by Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 239 pages
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The Library

Sir John Young Walker MacAlister, Alfred William Pollard, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Sir Frank Chalton Francis - 1920 - 320 pages
...contracted. His legs ' were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs ' of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid : ' for he was not able to undress himself, and neither went to ' bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very ' difficult...
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The Age of Pope: (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1928 - 280 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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A Survey of English Literature, 1730-1780, Volume 1

Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen almost all away, and he used to dine sometimes with Lord Oxford, privately, in a velvet cap. His dress...
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Great Short Biographies of the World: A Collection of Short Biographies ...

Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which \\i-ti- drawn on and off by the maid: for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness nudo it very...
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Women's Place in Pope's World

Valerie Rumbold - 1989 - 342 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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Twenty Questions: (posed by Poems)

J. D. McClatchy - 1998 - 236 pages
...contracted. (57) His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for...
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The Magazine of Health, Volume 1

1836 - 362 pages
...flannel waistcoat. His legs were so slender, thar he enlarged theit bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and he neither went to bed nor rose without help." This extraordinary necessity...
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Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 1

1856 - 720 pages
...flannel waistcoat. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and he ueither went to bed nor rose without help." ;< His frequent attacks...
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